Do you ever feel ever-so-slightly knocked off your feet when things you've come to know VERY seperately suddenly merge into one big ball of omg-theyknoweachother-interrelated-backfromthepast-wtf sort of.. thing..?
One of the very first webcomics I ever came to like was called Return To Sender, back in 2003. I liked it so much I saved every single panel just as a keepsake. It was written by a mysterious girl who never left her name, and I would be visiting every so often until she updated with a new panel, although I secretly hated it because I'd always want to know what happened next.
But one day, she just stopped updating.
I was going through my old pictures and found them in a folder. I wondered if she ever got round to updating, because I eventually forgot to keep checking and moved on to other comics. I found the website again, and she had updated in 2007, but only to say that she'd lost interest in the comic she created, and has moved on to bigger and better things. To my surprise I found out that at the time she was only 16 when she wrote that comic. Only two years older than me. It's amazing to think that she had so much imagination.
I went to have a look at the kind of artwork she does now, and I must say she has grown as an artist. Not only that, she's now a storyboard artist, and has been working on the movie production of Coraline, a story written by Neil Gaiman!
It's such a strange feeling to be really happy for her. It's like meeting someone again after 6 years and seeing them all grown up! Except for the meeting her part, because of course I've never known her. But oh-my-goodness! all the same.
One of the very first webcomics I ever came to like was called Return To Sender, back in 2003. I liked it so much I saved every single panel just as a keepsake. It was written by a mysterious girl who never left her name, and I would be visiting every so often until she updated with a new panel, although I secretly hated it because I'd always want to know what happened next.
But one day, she just stopped updating.
I was going through my old pictures and found them in a folder. I wondered if she ever got round to updating, because I eventually forgot to keep checking and moved on to other comics. I found the website again, and she had updated in 2007, but only to say that she'd lost interest in the comic she created, and has moved on to bigger and better things. To my surprise I found out that at the time she was only 16 when she wrote that comic. Only two years older than me. It's amazing to think that she had so much imagination.
I went to have a look at the kind of artwork she does now, and I must say she has grown as an artist. Not only that, she's now a storyboard artist, and has been working on the movie production of Coraline, a story written by Neil Gaiman!
It's such a strange feeling to be really happy for her. It's like meeting someone again after 6 years and seeing them all grown up! Except for the meeting her part, because of course I've never known her. But oh-my-goodness! all the same.
2 comments:
awww, that was cute :)
where do you read all your webcomics (though i doubt i'll start a new obsession, i;m still waaay into manga).
i find them very randomly across all corners of the internet. None of this centralised manga junkie fixes like onemanga in the world of webcomics.
It's very cool to discover new ones, and it's very fun to start supporting your favourite artists.
what you have dear is an affliction.
note how i was on the comic scene, if you will, 6 years ago, biatch ;p <3
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